The Policies of Agilulf and the Iconography of the Val Di Nievole Visor
The Policies of Agilulf and the Iconography of the Val Di Nievole Visor By Julia Bolotina The Future of History: An Undergraduate Journal,…
Cambridge Illuminations
Cambridge Illuminations Panayotova, Stella Marginalia, Vol. 3 (2006) Abstract The Cambridge Illuminations (July-December 2005) has been judged to be not only the largest…
Salvage Recording of Romano-British, Saxon, Medieval, and Post-Medieval remains at North Street, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire
Salvage Recording of Romano-British, Saxon, Medieval, and Post-Medieval remains at North Street, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire Saville, Alan Trans Bristol Gloucestershire Archaeol Soc 103 (1985) Abstract…
The Cadaver Synod: Strangest Trial in History
One thousand, one hundred and four years ago, a criminal trial took place in Italy, a trial so macabre, so gruesome, so frightful, that it easily qualifies as the strangest and most terrible trial in human in human history.
The Later Pre-Conquest Boroughs and their Defences
The Later Pre-Conquest Boroughs and their Defences RADFORD, C. A. RALEGH Medieval Archaeology Vol. 14 (1970) Abstract ‘For nearly two centuries before the…
Source materials for fishing in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Instead of searching for ancient parallels to the fishery statistics, tithe-books and tax records of the early modern periods – a waste of time, since such records are not preserved and probably never existed – we should look at all possible approaches to the problem and all possible sources.
THE COINS OF THE DANISH KINGS OF IRELAND
THE COINS OF THE DANISH KINGS OF IRELAND Roth, Bernard The British Numismatic Journal, Vol. 6 (1910) Abstract Charles Haliday says ~ “It must…
A catastrophe remembered: a meteorite impact of the fifth century AD in the Abruzzo, central Italy
A catastrophe remembered: a meteorite impact of the fifth century AD in the Abruzzo, central Italy Roberto Santilli, , Jens Ormo, Angelo P. Rossi,…
A Modified al-Farabian Interpretation of Arisotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
A Modified al-Farabian Interpretation of Arisotle’s Nicomachean Ethics Peffley, Carrie Marginalia, Vol.3, (2006) Abstract Nothing in Aristotelian texts seems to vex readers more than…
The Crux Gemmata and Shifting Significances of the Cross in Insular Art
The Crux Gemmata and Shifting Significances of the Cross in Insular Art Schweitzer, Ilse Marginalia, Vol.3 (2006) Abstract This image of the triumphant…
Transgressing the Boundaries of Holiness: Sexual Deviance in the Early Medieval Penitential Handbooks of Ireland, England and France 500-1000
This study will take the form of a closer examination of smaller specific categories of deviance: the nocturnal emissions of clerics, sexual relations during menstruation and pregnancy, homosexuality, bestiality, incest, and adultery.
UN-CAGING MEANING IN JOHN CAPGRAVE’S LIFE OF SAINT KATHERINE OF ALEXANDRIA: BODIES AND BRIDES OF CHRIST
UN-CAGING MEANING IN JOHN CAPGRAVE’S LIFE OF SAINT KATHERINE OF ALEXANDRIA: BODIES AND BRIDES OF CHRIST Geldenhuys, Katharine Leigh Phd Thesis (University of the…
GENDER AND AUTHORITY IN THE MEDIEVAL FRENCH LAI MIRANDA GRIFFIN
GENDER AND AUTHORITY IN THE MEDIEVAL FRENCH LAI GRIFFIN, MIRANDA Forum for Modern Language Studies, Vol.35 (1999) Abstract THE TWELVE LAIS in the manuscript…
Industrial Energy from Water-Mills in the European Economy, Fifth to Eighteenth Centuries: the Limitations of Power
Industrial Energy from Water-Mills in the European Economy, Fifth to Eighteenth Centuries: the Limitations of Power Munro, John (University of Toronto) Department of Economics University…
Reasons for Political Instability in the Visigothic Kingdom in Iberia
Reasons for Political Instability in the Visigothic Kingdom in Iberia Bourassa, Gillian Washington College Review, Vol.15 (2007) Abstract Europe experienced significant changes during the…
The composition and manufacture of early medieval coloured window glass from Sion (Valais, Switzerland) : A Roman glass-making tradition or innovative craftsmanship?
The composition and manufacture of early medieval coloured window glass from Sion (Valais, Switzerland) : A Roman glass-making tradition or innovative craftsmanship? By…
Marriage in Early Ireland
The principal sources for the history of marriage in early Ireland are the law tracts in Irish and Latin, all the most important of which were probably written up within half a century of AD 700.
A Survey of the Anglo-Saxon Cruciform Brooches of Florid Type
A Survey of the Anglo-Saxon Cruciform Brooches of Florid Type Leeds, E. T. Pocock, Michael Medieval Archaeology, Vol.15 (1971) Abstract This short study o…
Land and power in Early Medieval Wales
Land and power in Early Medieval Wales Davies, Wendy Past and Present, Vol.78 (1981) Abstract Such was the impact of the conquest of Wales that…
Merovingian History and Merovingian Hagiography
Merovingian History and Merovingian Hagiography By Paul Fouracre Past and Present, Vol. 127:1 (1990) Introduction: In a recent survey aimed at providing a…
Perché Brescia non è Divenuta la Capitale del Regno Longobardo?
Perché Brescia non è Divenuta la Capitale del Regno Longobardo? Długosz, Dominika (Kraków) Studies in Ancient Art and Civilization, vol.10, Kraków (2007) Abstract Visitando…
The Three Young Men in The Furnace and The Art of Ecphrasis in The Coptic Sermon By Theophilus of Alexandria
The Three Young Men in The Furnace and The Art of Ecphrasis in The Coptic Sermon By Theophilus of Alexandria Polański, Tomasz (Kraków)…
What’s Wrong with Early Medieval Medicine?
How to tell if a sick person will die? One way was copied somewhere in France around the year 800. ‘Take the tick of a black dog in the left hand and go into the sick room, and if, when the sick man sees you, he turns himself towards you, non euadit [he’s ‘a goner’]’.
A Neglected Viking Burial with Beads from Kilmainham, Dublin, Discovered in 1847
A Neglected Viking Burial with Beads from Kilmainham, Dublin, Discovered in 1847 BRIGGS, C. S. Medieval Archaeology, Vol.29 (1985) Abstract The discovery of a…
The Baptism of Kiev
A thousand years ago, in 988, the Slav principality of Kievan Rus’, or Kievan Russia, came into being as one of a cluster of Christian States in Europe